Tom O'Halleran

Tom O'Halleran (24 January 1946-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-AZ 1) from 3 January 2017, succeeding Ann Kirkpatrick.

Biography
Tom O'Halleran was born in Chicago, Illinois on 24 January 1946, and he served with the Chicago Police Department from 1966 to 1979. He then became a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, operating his own futures trading business. From 2001 to 2006, he served in the Arizona House of Representatives as a Republican, followed by a 2007-2009 term as a State Senator. In 2014, the party's policies on education, water, and child welfare led to O'Halleran resigning from the Republican Party and becoming an independent; in 2015, he joined the Democratic Party. In 2016, he was elected to the US House of Representatives, and he sat in the US Congress as a member of the conservative Blue Dog Coalition.